Iraq - Medical aid for sick children

T/I: 10:59:47 A delegation from the US National Council of Churches delivered 10 tonnes of medical aid to Iraqi hospitals on Saturday (11/4). The Council, which represents 53 million American Christians, has sent three million dollars of aid to Iraq since 1991. Meanwhile, the Iraqi parliament on Saturday (11/4) condemned British plans to host a conference later this month on ways to increase Iraqi oil sales in return for food, and called on Arab and other parliaments to oppose it. SHOWS: BAGHDAD, IRAQ, 11/4 0.00 MS Reverend Rodney Page, Executive Director of the US National Council of Churches, carrying supplies to the Saddam Hospital; 0.07 MS supplies stacked up outside hospital; 0.11 CU medicine bottle; 0.16 MS Page with ill baby and mother; 0.20 CU baby UNDERLAY SOT Reverend Rodney Page, Executive Director, US National Council of Churches: "Thousands of babies and children are suffering here in Iraq because of not having the adequate medicines to be treated, with diseases that are so easily treatable, not having enough food to throw off diseases because they suffer from malnutrition they are susceptible to many diseases"; 0.25 PULL out baby to priest (SOT CONTINUES); 0.42 MS mother sitting in hospital ward with red-headed baby on her lap; 0.48 MS oxygen mask being forced onto a yelling baby; 0.54 Page and mission delegates walking through the hospital with Dr. Khoula; 0.58 CU sick baby with very long nails; 1.03 PAN left on interior of Iraqi National Assembly; 1.13 MS concerned mother holding baby; 1.17 CU baby face; 1.22 VISION ENDS You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0e0344b23c12e9deeede89c0de9ea022 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork